Re: How much did your boat project cost?
Well my Glasspar has seen two redos, the first time around I think I spent about $500 getting the hull, which was gutted, with no floor and full of waterlogged foam, seaworthy. I spent another $240 or so getting a usable trailer under it, and had a Lark III Evvy from another boat. However I had less than $200 in that motor including two parts motors to make it happen.
So I would say I had around $900 total in it the first time, got it in December of '97 and had it in the water in September of '99, painted with Easypoxy, with coolers as seats. I used it this way until '05.
Then a couple greenhorn mistakes "pre I boats advice" added up to some re work. I then decided to do a much nicer paint job using higher quality paints, and upgrade to a newer outboard with some reliability. I would say I put about $700 in paint, hardware and such, and spent another $650 on the motor which I got a deal on. I worked on it off and on (more off than on) and re splashed it in June of '06.
This spring I picked up another old boat ('67 Glassmaster) with a really good trailer for $400, traded the boat and my old trailer which was better suited to a narrower beamed, flatter bottomed boat to a buddy who helped lay tile in my kitchen.
All in all, I have under three thousand in a unique boat that gets compliments where ever I go. It's small enough I can pull it with a mid size FWD car and launch/load it without help, yet has a deep enough vee and flare to the bow so it handles some decent chop.
